Know your Fungi Fam

Question 1

Malassezi furruf

Answer 1

Superficial mycoses

• Pityriasis( Tinea), skin alter color
• fluoresces under UV light

Question 2

Hortaea werneckii

Answer 2

Superficial mycoses

• Tinea Nigra, skin to darkens

Question 3

Pidera hortae

Answer 3

Superficial mycoses

• Black piedra, infection of the hair shaft , Also white Pidera

Question 4

Trichophyton rubrum & T. mentagrophytes

Answer 4

Ascomycete, Superficial mycoses, Mold

• Onychomycosis, fungal infection of fingernails and toenails

Question 5

Sporothrix schenckii

Answer 5

Ascomycete, Subcutaneous mycoses , Dimorphic

• Sporotrichosis, chronic granulomatous infection
• soil fungus

Question 6

Mycetoma

Answer 6

granulomatous inflammation extend beneath the subcutaneous region to the bone

• colored grains

Question 7

Chromoblastomycosis

Answer 7

infection that forms warty pigmented lesions

Question 8

Candida albicans

Answer 8

Ascomycetes , Opportunistic , Dimorphic

• Pseudohyphae, favor hot temps.
• causes superficial infection, oral, genitalia, large intestine
• off white yeasty odor
• Stains Gram positive
• Causes thrust, yeast infection

Question 9

Aspergillosis

Answer 9

Ascomycete, Opportunistic ,Mold

• Low angle branching
• airborne soil fungus
• infects lungs
• serious in AIDS, leukemia and transplant patients

Question 10

Cryptococcus neoformans

Answer 10

Basidiomycete, Opportunistic, Yeast

• inhabits soil around pigeon roost
• infects lungs and brain
• Common in AIDS, cancer and diabetes patients

Question 11

Rhizopus,Absidia, Mucor

Answer 11

Zygomycosis/mucormycosis, Opportunistic ,Mold

• Right angle branching
• found in soil, water and waste
• Usually harmless but can invade nose, eyes, heart and brain of people with diabetes and malnutrition

Question 12

Pneumocystis jiroveci

Answer 12

Ascomycete, Opportunistic ,Cysts

• small single cellulare
• Causes PCP most common, infectionin AIDS patients